The new politics of the welfare state / edited by Paul Pierson.

Introduction : investigating the welfare state at century's end / Paul Pierson -- Round up the usual suspects! Globalization, domestic politics, and welfare state change / Herman Schwartz -- The dynamics of welfare state expansion :trade openness, de-industrialization, and partisan politics / Torben Iversen --Post-industrial pressures on the mature welfare states / Paul Pierson -- Welfare state and production regimes in the era of retrenchment / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens -- Comparative institutional advantages of welfare state regimes and new coalitions in welfare state reforms / Philip Manow -- The political economy of social pacts : 'competitive corporatism' and European welfare reform / Martin Rhodes -- Political institutions and welfare state restructuring : the impact of institutions on social policy change in developed democracies / Duane Swank -- Political institutions, veto points, and the process of welfare state adaptation / Giuliano Bonoli -- Partisan competition and welfare state retre